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strongest mutual hostility , combined to support a fabrication ; that they have not violated this combination ; that the numerous writers on both sides of the question have not suffered the slightest hint of this mysterious compact to escape them ; and that , though the Jews are galled incessantly by the triumphant tone of the Christian appeals to their own prophecies , they have never been tempted to let out a secret which would have brought the argument oX
the Christians into disgrace , and shewn the world how falsehood and forgery mingled with their pretensions . " * In the second place we have to boast , in favour of the authority and credit due to the prophetical books , the separate testimony of the Jews of Palestine and those of Alexandria , as exhibited in the writings of Josephus and the books of the New Testament , on the one * hand , and in the works of Philo and the Septuagint Version , on the other . This too is a material point in the question before us , since it proves that we are in possession of all the testimony which it was possible for the writings
of those times to furnish . In the third and last place , the books of the prophets were acknowledged and appealed to by the Jews in times closely bordering upon those in which they are said to have been written ; a cir- * cumstance for which it is quite impossible to account on the supposition that they were forgeries . If , then , any faith is to be placed in human testimony , we are bound to admit the authenticity of these books . The credibility of the predictions contained in them will form the subject of some future communication .
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Toss ' d on the world's wide sea of storms , How helpless toils the Sceptic's bark ! No ardent faith the region warms , The course is rough— -the way is dark ! He views no beacon light on high , No pilot ' s skilful hand is nigh , But doubt stands trembling at the helm , Till bursting waves the bark o ' erwhelm .
See , where the Christian bends his way ! Though wildest tempests swell around , He follows Heav ' n ' s directing ray , Which points where safety's port is found . Fearless , he steers as God commands , From passion ' s rocks , and pleasure ' s strands ; Hope cheers his spirits through the strife , And bears him on to endless life . Birmingham . H . H .
* Chalmers ' s Evidence and Authority of the Christian Religion , chap . vi . p . 185 ; Fifth Ed .
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THE SCEPTIC AND THE CHRISTIAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/31/
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